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Texas Disasters - True Stories Of Tragedy And Survival (Paperback)
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Texas Disasters - True Stories Of Tragedy And Survival (Paperback)
Series: Disasters Series
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The enormity of Texas's many major disasters are an appropriate
match for the state's large size. This is an area of the country
where tornadoes are a frequent threat, but in addition to the many
violent twisters, residents have experienced fires, floods,
drought, blizzards, shipwrecks, and other devastating events,
including a yellow fever epidemic in 1867, which earned that year
the grim moniker The Year of Death.
Twenty dramatic true stories are retold in this well-researched
collection, including:
>The deadly quarter-mile-wide tornado that roared through the
town of Goliad in 1902, killing 114 people, injuring 230, and
demolishing 150 structures.
>A 1937 natural gas explosion at a school in New London, which
blew the whole building into the air and killed 298 students and
teachers.
>A 15-foot wall of water that in 1965 swept down the canyon in
the West Texas railroad town of Sanderson, killing whole families
but uniting the racially divided town in rescue efforts.
>The 1947 explosion of the SS Grandcamp, a French vessel docked
in Texas City and laden with ammonium nitrate, which had caught
fire and later ignited another ship carrying the same cargo. The
two blasts killed 576 people, injured thousands more, and jarred
residents of Houston 40 miles to the north.
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